Thanks Larry, It is CF 8, sorry. I have never used CFTHREAD. I'll take a look at the CF docs. It's worth a shot if it allows me to follow the thread until completion.
Anyone want to chime in? I.E. take my code below and show me how cfthread could work in this case? :) Vince > You didn't say what version of CF you're using, but if its CF8, couldn't you > use CFTHREAD to run the process and notify the user when its complete > > regards,larry > ..... I get exactly the same results from the following two examples: ======= Example 1 ======= <cfset StartTime = "#now()#"> <cfscript> try { readWMS = CreateObject("java", "com.domain.blah.java"); } catch(Any exception) { JavaException = "#exception.Message#"; } try { readWMS = readWMS.run(); } catch(Any exception) { JavaException = "#exception.Message#"; } </cfscript> <cfset EndTime = "#now()#"> ....then cfmail the start and end times and show a complete or show the error... ======= Example 2 ======= <cfset StartTime = "#now()#"> <cftry> <cfobject type="java" action="create" class="com.domain.blah.java" name="readWMS"> <cfset result = '#readWMS.getInfo()#'> <cfcatch type="any"> <cfset errorMessage = "#cfcatch.Message#"> <cfset errorDetail = "#cfcatch.detail#"> <cfset errorTagContext = "#cfcatch.tagcontext#"> </cfcatch> </cftry> <cfset EndTime = "#now()#"> ....then cfmail the start and end times and show a complete or show the error... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307248 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4